This sophisticated bar interior features a long, dark-tiled and slatted counter topped with a rich, dark surface, complemented by elegant brown leather bar stools. The back bar showcases arched niches in a soft pink plaster, brightly illuminating a vast selection of bottles, while an overhead black metal gantry holds an array of glassware. Warm uplighting from behind vertical wooden slats on the bar canopy and recessed spotlights create an inviting, intimate atmosphere, contrasting with the ornate original ceiling molding and a modern herringbone wood floor.

Gost

Restaurant · Glasgow

A Glasgow steak restaurant and cocktail bar in the city centre — parquet, mustard-and-burgundy leather, brass globes and a dried-floral installation that reads from the door.

What we did

Concept
Interior design
Brand and identity
Exterior design
Signage
Web design
Menu design

Address

77 Bothwell St, Glasgow G2 6TS

Online

gost.uk

Gōst (pronounced ghost) is a steak restaurant and cocktail bar in Glasgow’s city centre. Brand, interior and menu system designed as one piece — atmospheric reading both ways through the dinner-into-late-bar shift. The room had to do two jobs without changing furniture: serve the early-evening dining covers, then carry the late-night cocktail trade past 11pm without the room going flat.

The interior delivers the full evening arc on one set of materials — parquet floor, matte black slatted walls with vertical LED tubes, mustard buttoned banquettes, burgundy leather club chairs, brass globe pendants and a dried-floral ceiling installation in copper, ochre and rust. The lighting design steps down across the night in three preset scenes; the bottle theatre at the back bar steps up.

Brand and signage built around a heavy serif wordmark with a long-form tagline (“eat · drink · play”) that runs across menu, exterior and web. Service flow rebuilt around the bar so cocktail-led tables don’t compete with dining-led tables for staff attention at the 9pm peak.

Sited at 77 Bothwell Street near Glasgow Central Station. Part of The Superlative Collection.

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